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service opportunities, such as trail maintenance, park beautification or construction projects

facilities to host scout functions

programs to help scouts meet badge requirements

Our list of available programs is below. Use the Age column to determine which programs are relevant for your group. Programs are one hour in length and are free of charge.
You may request a program by submitting a Program Request Form.

Program

Age

Months Offered

Description

Indoor/Outdoor

Louisiana Natives

Pre-K-5th

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Meet and learn about animals and plants that live right here in northwest Louisiana in the classroom and on the trail.

Both

Insectigation

Pre-K-5th

March, April, October, November

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Students identify features that define an animal as an insect, examine live insects and their relatives to compare similarities, and then hit the trail with nets and jars in search of insects.

Both

Life Cycles

2nd-5th

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Discover that all living things grow and change but can do so many different ways. And see all the stages of an insect life cycle in real life.

Indoor

Habitat That

1st-5th

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park only.

Meet a live turtle, learn about her habitat needs, and hike through a forest habitat.

Both

Ancient Alligators

2nd-adult

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Naturalist presentation with a live alligator and alligator artifacts.

Students learn about the adaptations that allow alligators to survive and learn how this species came back from the brink of extinction.

Indoor

*Outdoor possible

Rock Box

3rd-5th

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Get hands-on with rocks, minerals, field guides, and test kits. Students identify three types of rocks, demonstrate ways to classify rocks and minerals, and discover common uses and economic importance of some rocks and minerals.

Indoor

Living Lake

1st -adult

March-November

*Held at Richard Fleming Park only.

*Requires 1 chaperone per 4 students.

Explore life on the edge of Cross lake. Catch and examine minnows, tadpoles, crawfish, dragonfly larva, and much more. Focus can include adaptations, classification, water quality, life cycles, or food webs.

Outdoor

Birds of Prey

3rd-adult

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Focus can include adaptations, identification, food webs, endangered species and will include one or more live raptors.

Indoor

*Outdoor possible

Snakes of Louisiana

2nd-adult

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Naturalist presentation with live snakes native to Louisiana. Learn how identify venomous and non-venomous species, and discover interesting facts about snake biology and ecology.

Indoor

*Outdoor possible

Owls of Louisiana

2nd-adult

Year Round

Available at the Nature Park or at your site.

Naturalist presentation with live owls native to Louisiana. Discover adaptations owls have for being nocturnal predators.